Project Description Traditional childbirth practices were intrinsic to the Inuit way of life and crucial to maintaining the social fabric of Inuit communities. The bonds within the family and community were thus reinforced and intensified much beyond the birth event,...
Project Description Part 1 of this book contains short quotations from Elders’ interviews divided into key themes that emerged from the interviews. In Part 2, we present each Elder’s complete interview. The interviews from Puvirnituq were conducted in Inuktitut and...
Project Description Pauktuutit’s sexual health program began in the late 1980’s when news of the first Inuk woman diagnosed with HIV became public. Pauktuutit first passed a resolution during its 1984 Annual General Meetings (AGM) calling attention to Inuit sexual...
Project Description Alcohol can damage the brain and body of an unborn child. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) describes the wide range of lifelong mental, behavioural, and physical effects on children if their mothers drank alcohol while pregnant. Drinking no...
Project Description In January of 1998, in Kuujjuaq, Quebec, there was a special meeting of elders and parents. During the sessions elders spoke about Inuit ways of caring for children. Pauktuutit is very proud to announce the availability of the following collection...
